When you encounter a lane hogger, what do *you* do?

[umedc]

this happen to all time ,only last week on m1 doing 75 on 3 lane 2 lane clear car in front 70 . flash but no joy so i passed them in inside lane but i got that look like why u flashing me

 

[stevesey]

For lane 2 hoggers - usually lane 1 (perpahps with a pre-emptine flash) -> lane 3 - lane 1 again.

Lane 3 hoggers - not normally an issue in the rush hour as they don't get much chance to hog before the next bunch of traffic. Although often I do find myself in lane 1 sailing up the inside of a queue of traffic in lane 3 as the congestion takes hold (braking and staying level with the last car seems stupid so I'm applying the congestion rule then ).

 

[Sorry Pete]

I think there needs to be a little distinction between degrees of hoggerism. If the road is empty, and there's a zoned-out moron with a 1000 yard stare in lane 2, it's likely to get me het up. Actually, more so since I joined this forum .

I think that with the amount of congestion on UK roads, it's unrealistic to expect everyone doing the nsl to revert to lane 1, in all circumstances. Often, even when there's a fairly large gap between slow-moving lorries, moving into lane 1 means you're stuck by long streams of passing traffic in lane 2 before you can safely overtake, and that in itself causes frustration.

Congestion issues aside, it really rattles my can, and even with lane 1-3-1 overtakes, some guys just don't get it.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Am I a lane hogger?

I use the M4 daily, an average of 250 miles per day. I set my speed limiter to the maximum I believe I can get away with which is going to be quicker than lane 3 usually runs at anywhere between London and Bristol for example.
I will certainly be going quicker than lane 2 and overtaking a line of traffic, there may be breaks in lane 2 but my speed is still dictated by the car in front which will be travelling slower than I could be.
I like to leave a decent stopping distance between me and the car in front. Some people think that this means that they ought to tailgate me until I move over so that they can fill my safety gap and tailgate the car in front.
I usually just pull over and let the cretins by, after all what's the point in me having a safe stopping distance if the **** behind me will rear end me anyway?

 

[stevesey]

I think that with the amount of congestion on UK roads, it's unrealistic to expect everyone doing the nsl to revert to lane 1, in all circumstances. Often, even when there's a fairly large gap between slow-moving lorries, moving into lane 1 means you're stuck by long streams of passing traffic in lane 2 before you can safely overtake, and that in itself causes frustration.

Am I a lane hogger?

I use the M4 daily, an average of 250 miles per day. I set my speed limiter to the maximum I believe I can get away with which is going to be quicker than lane 3 usually runs at anywhere between London and Bristol for example.
I will certainly be going quicker than lane 2 and overtaking a line of traffic, there may be breaks in lane 2 but my speed is still dictated by the car in front which will be travelling slower than I could be.

I'll keep an eye out for you and let you know.

I do J18 -> J16 every day at between @ 75-80mph (indicated of course). Normally during the rush hour, I find there is plenty of opportunity to use lane 1 (without risking getting boxed in). Travelling faster might make it more difficult to get across though.

 

[Pappilo]

I dont care about middle lane (lane 2) hoggers cause I can always overtake them in lane 3. I hate it when a lorry tries to overtake in lane 2 and the lane is being hogged by some moron whit the lorry right on their tails. I would have thought these fools cared for their lives.

Lane 3 hoggers are the ones I hate the most. I remember once of the A406 there was a lane 3 hogger and I came right up behind him and flashed but he held his five fingers up in the rear view to remind me we were in a 50 zone and didnt budge.

if I havent got any time, i just undertake and keep moving. If I have got time, I undertake and then slow right down in front of them. Most get the message and move to the middle lane but some dont. I once slowed down in front of lane 3 hogger I had undertook and he made to go past me in lane 2. I maintained speed with him for about a mile so he wasnt able to do so. I got tired and sped of, looked in my rear view mirror and to my suprise, the fool moved staright back into the lane 3. Bloody idiot!.

 

[Colin_b]

This weekend I have mostly been driving up and down the M6.

Oddly, completely uneventful. Set the cruise control for a GPS accurate 76mph, and off I set, keep left unless overtaking.

I think I needed to unset the cruise about 3 times and brake once. No one hogging lanes, tailgating or getting upset at all.

I thought I'd hit a time warp and gone back to 1969, until I saw the petrol prices...

 

[neilrr]

In the States and Canada you can undertake and the traffic seems to flow much better, drivers don't seem to get so wound up about being stuck behind morons...

That is just not true.
http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/842758-post21.html

 

[EDZ649]

That is just not true.
http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/842758-post21.html

I wasn't referring to going faster, just that the traffic flows better and people get less stressed with others

My brother lives in the states, has done for the last twenty years or so and he is always complaining about not being able to undertake when he visits the UK.

 

[mykulmerc]

Lane hogging shows almost incomprehendable levels of ignorance both on the part of those that do it (if they are this unaware of the damage they are doing, what else are they missing) and the authorities who seem to think that driving a few mph over the arbitary limit set by somebody in an office is more harmful than lane hogging.

We are having a justified rant, can it be turned round to something positive?

 

[Nasco12]

Sometimes I am a Lane 2 hogger. But only if I am coming up to a dangerous junction where I know from experience joining traffic tends to be travelling far too slowly and tends to bunch. In those circumstances you really want to be in Lane 2.

Lane 3 hoggers. I don't like to flash people. Too aggressive. I prefer to indicate right as they do in France (er, actually that would be left in France, right here). I also keep my distance. All I want them to do is to move over. Any aggression on my part is likely to make them dig their heels in.

 

[carnut]

Papplio Quote- if I havent got any time, i just undertake and keep moving. If I have got time, I undertake and then slow right down in front of them. Most get the message and move to the middle lane but some dont. I once slowed down in front of lane 3 hogger I had undertook and he made to go past me in lane 2. I maintained speed with him for about a mile so he wasnt able to do so. I got tired and sped of, looked in my rear view mirror and to my suprise, the fool moved staright back into the lane 3. Bloody idiot!. - Quote

Actually Papplilo if you read your own post you sound (IMHO) the idiot...thats how accidents are caused and if you told that story to the judge youd be in real touble!

 

[Pappilo]

@ Carnut

IMHO your father is the idiot!

This isnt a thread for idiots like you sitting on your high horse and pretending to be a saint. The thread starter specifically asked what do you do and not what is the right thing to do.

I am not an idiot like you to make up a story just to look good infront of imaginary mates on the internet. So you can go an jump of the QEII bridge!

 

[crockers]

I dont care about middle lane (lane 2) hoggers cause I can always overtake them in lane 3. I hate it when a lorry tries to overtake in lane 2 and the lane is being hogged by some moron whit the lorry right on their tails. I would have thought these fools cared for their lives.

Lane 3 hoggers are the ones I hate the most. I remember once of the A406 there was a lane 3 hogger and I came right up behind him and flashed but he held his five fingers up in the rear view to remind me we were in a 50 zone and didnt budge.

if I havent got any time, i just undertake and keep moving. If I have got time, I undertake and then slow right down in front of them. Most get the message and move to the middle lane but some dont. I once slowed down in front of lane 3 hogger I had undertook and he made to go past me in lane 2. I maintained speed with him for about a mile so he wasnt able to do so. I got tired and sped of, looked in my rear view mirror and to my suprise, the fool moved staright back into the lane 3. Bloody idiot!.

@ Carnut

IMHO your father is the idiot!

This isnt a thread for idiots like you sitting on your high horse and pretending to be a saint. The thread starter specifically asked what do you do and not what is the right thing to do.

I am not an idiot like you to make up a story just to look good infront of imaginary mates on the internet. So you can go an jump of the QEII bridge!

WOW...buddy cool down....anger management needed here...

Lets not cut one another up online plenty of that going on on the roads..

 

[Howard]

Posted at 0833 .... obviously got out of the wrong side of the bed

 

[nigel cross]

@ Carnut

IMHO your father is the idiot!

This isnt a thread for idiots like you sitting on your high horse and pretending to be a saint. The thread starter specifically asked what do you do and not what is the right thing to do.

I am not an idiot like you to make up a story just to look good infront of imaginary mates on the internet. So you can go an jump of the QEII bridge!

Confused?? How did his father get involved. Sounds like some foreign curse, that goes on th mention that your mother is the daugther of a demented Wombat ( or is this a clip from a Monty Python Sketch )

 

[Brian WH]

Enough.

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